Rugged case protects Raspberry Pi for industrial use
Inelco Hunter has announced a rugged, industrial grade steel case for its 10.1 inch PCAP (projective capacitance) touch screen kit, developed to work with the Raspberry Pi. The cost-effective, pre-assembled display kit has a new steel enclosure to enable it to be used as an industrial system “with minimal effort”.
The touch screen kit can be used in commercial and industrial applications including factory automation, medical devices, home technology, IoT products, communication systems and payment terminals.
The kit is pre-assembled to take the Raspberry Pi which is simply mounted onto the rear of the interface PCB using the supplied pillars and screws. The display provides a resolution up to WXGA.
Connection is via an onboard HDMI interface PCB which provides all power, signal and backlight conversion for the TFT display. The kit requires 12V at 2A to drive the TFT display, touch panel and backlight, and 5V at 2A to power the Raspberry Pi.
The kit includes a multi-touch input PCAP touch screen, which can be either USB or I2C connected, a wide angle of view IPS display and a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. The screen dimensions are 255 x 174 x 9.0mm (including the touch panel). The screen view area is 218 x 137mm.
In addition to the 10.1 inch touch screen display there is an HDMI to LVDS interface PCB (pre-assembled), an HDMI to HDMI interface cable, a micro USB to USB interface cable and four M2.5 screws and pillars for mounting the Pi.
Distributor Inelco Hunter provides helpful, in-depth engineering support, ensuring rapid implementation, speeding up the customer’s time-to-market.
